Songoftheday 8/5/14 - As the sun hides his head ror another night's rest, and the wind sings his same old song...

Night Ranger - "Goodbye"
from the album 7 Wishes (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is from the mainstream "hard" rock group Night Ranger, whose third album 7 Wishes had already spun off two pop hits with the top-10 "Sentimental Street" and the top-20 follow-up "Four In The Morning". For the third release the band went with the ballad "Goodbye", written by bassist and singer Jack Blades and guitarist Jeff Watson, and sung by drummer Kelly Keagy...

"Goodbye" became Night Ranger's sixth and so-far last top-40 pop hit in America in February of 1986, while going a notch higher on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart. It was also a minor hit in Canada, stopping at #85.

The band would go on to have a few more minor hits, the most recent being 'I Did It For Love" from their fifth set Man In Motion, which landed at #75 on the pop list though it matched "Goodbye"'s #16 peak on the rock chart. The band split at the end of the decade, and Blades went on to team up with Ted Nugent and Styx's Tommy Shaw for the "supergroup" Damn Yankees, who had their biggest hit for either (besides Shaw) with "High Enough", which went to #3 in 1990. The original members would reunited in 1996, and have been recording and touring with different lineups since.

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Night Ranger revisited "Goodbye" on their TNN special in 2001...

...and from a live show last year...

Up tomorrow: An embarrassing trip to foreign intrigue movie hi-jinks by a rock-n-roll god.